Re: [Idr] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-te-pm-bgp-17: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 05:02:11AM +0000, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) wrote:
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> > Subject: Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-te-pm-bgp-17: (with
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> > DISCUSS:
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> > How are the measurement interval(s) for these TLVs chosen?  I note that RFC
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> > 7810 (and 7810bis), as well as RFC 7471, include some text about
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> > measurement intervals, in particular, a default value of 30 seconds and in
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> > at least one case a requirement for configurability at sub-TLV granularity
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> > (thus, TLV granularity for us here).  That said, it's not entirely clear to me
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> > I'm supposed to treat the measurement intervals as also inherited from
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> > 7810bis/7471
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> > as part of the "semantics of the value field".  It may be worth a brief clarifying
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> > in the top-level Section 2.
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> [Les:] There is no concept of "measurement intervals" here. The BGP-LS advertisements are simply reporting what the IGPs have advertised.
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> Measurement intervals/delays etc. are all done before the information is given to the IGPs to advertise. This is discussed in the IGP specifications.
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> Perhaps you will find relevant this exchange between Yoshi and myself in the context of his Tsvart review:

I do, thanks.

Combining this, your description above, and Alvaro's clarification on the
telechat, it's clear that my sickness-addled mind was just confused and
there's no issue here.  I'll go clear in the datatracker now, and sorry for
the noise.

-Benjamin